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ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t (www.vox.com)

A web version of Anthropic's prompt engineering interactive tutorial (thenameless.net)

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Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI (www.theregister.com)

MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says (slashdot.org)

Twitter is officially X.com now (www.theverge.com)

Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results (arstechnica.com)

Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)

Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption (www.theverge.com)

OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end (www.tomshardware.com)

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12631640...

Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs (mastodon.sdf.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15741608...

OpenAI announces GPT-4o, new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. (openai.com)

Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch (www.theverge.com)

Direct link to video: video.twimg.com/…/wisC0cfRP427swkT.mp4?tag=12

Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog (arstechnica.com)

When TikTok therapy is more lucrative than seeing clients (www.vox.com)

Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)

On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI’s Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.

Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies (arstechnica.com)

Here Is What Axon’s Bodycam Report Writing AI Looks Like (www.404media.co)

Axon has been inviting police departments to webinars about the new AI-based product, which will automatically generate police reports based on bodycam audio, according to emails obtained by 404 Media.

Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)

Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

Cable is dead. Long live the cable bundle. Curious to see the pricing and if the bundle only includes ad tiered options.

Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running (arstechnica.com)

NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code (mastodon.sdf.org)

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD’s licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD....

Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn (techcrunch.com)

A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” (arstechnica.com)

The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products “do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service,” it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins (www.tomshardware.com)